CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Geoffrey W. Symcox

 

 

Degrees

 

1960 BA in Modern History, Oxford University, England

1962 MA in International Relations, Stockholm University, Sweden

1967 PhD in European History, UCLA

 

 

Academic Positions

 

1969-1974 Assistant Professor of History, UCLA

1974-1983 Associate Professor of History, UCLA

1983- Professor of History, UCLA

 

 

Fields of Expertise

 

Renaisssance and Early Modern Europe (ca 1550-1800), specializing in Italy and France

The Savoyard State 1500-1800

Military and Diplomatic History of Europe ca 1500-11815

Architecture and Urban Planning in Europe 1400-1800

World History ca 600-1800

Columbus and the Early Spanish Empire in America

 

 

Linguistic Competencies

 

French, Italian (reading, speaking, writing)

Latin, Spanish, German, Swedish (reading)

Some Danish, Dutch and Portuguese

 

 

Service on Editorial Boards

 

General Editor of the Repertorium Columbianum (a 13-volume series of documents relating to Columbus’s voyages, published under the auspices of the UCLA Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)

Editorial Board Member, Viator

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Modern Italian Studies

Editorial Board Member, International History Review

 

 

Membership in Learned Societies

 

American Historical Association

World History Association

Urban History Association

Society for Court Studies

Society for Italian History

Deputazione di Storia Subalpina, Turin

Societŕ di Studi Valdesi, Torre Pellice, Italy

 

 

Principal Publications

 

War, Diplomacy and Imperialism 1618-1763 (New York; Harper, 1973)

 

The Crisis of French Sea Power 1688-1697: From the Guerre d’Escadre to the Guerre de Course (The Hague; Martinus Nijhoff, 1974)

 

Victor Amadeus II: Absolutism in the Savoyard State1675-1730 (London; Thames & Hudson: Berkeley & Los Angeles; University of California Press, 1983)

 

Italian translation of this work, Vittorio Amedeo II: l’assolutismo sabaudo 1675-1730 (Turin; SEI, 1985)

 

Seven chapters in G. Ricuperati (ed.), Storia di Torino vols. 3 & 4, (Turin; Einaudi 2001, 2002)

 

With Giovanna Rabitti, Italian Reports on America, 1493-1522: Letters, Dispatches and Papal Bulls. Vol. 10 of the Repertorium Columbianum (Turnhout, Belgium; Brepols 2001)

 

With Jesús Carrillo, Las Casas on Columbus:The Third Voyage. Vol. 11 of the Repertorium Columbianum (Turnhout, Belgium; Brepols 2001)

 

With Luciano Formisano, Italian Reports on America, 1493-1522: Accounts by Contemporary Observers. Vol. 12 of the Repertorium Columbianum (Turnhout, Belgium; Brepols, 2002)

 

Forthcoming: Christopher Columbus and the Enterprise of the Indies, co-authored with Blair Sullivan (New York & Boston; Bedford-St. Martins Press 2005)